http://www.serbianna.com/columns/jevtic/008.shtml
Wednesday, March 21, 2005
AL QAEDA IN THE BALKANS
Who in the Balkans wants to destroy America?
By *Miroljub Jevtic, Ph.D.
The news that a group of mujahadeens headed for Osama bin Laden's
jihad were captured on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan
would be nothing new, had the Pakistani authorities not announced that
one of them was an Albanian citizen. Clearly, Clinton's cooperation
with Balkan Islamists in the 1990s is only now turning like a
boomerang against the US.
While the official affront is that Bosnian Muslims and Albanians are
American allies in the war on terror, the US forces are tied up in
Bosnia monitoring and chasing the jihadists who have made Bosnia and
Albanian inhabited areas in the Balkans their domicile. Overtly then,
Balkan Muslims are supporting the West, while covertly they may seek
destruction of it.
The American strategists believed that by caving into territorial
demands Balkan Muslims are making, the newly established Islamic
entities will, because of the American influence and endorsement of
it, be a model to the Islamic world, showing the right political path.
The Christians of Bosnia, for example, are increasingly being
centralized under Islamic authority; Christian Croats are spliced
within Muslim federation and dominated by them while the Serbian
entity is under tremendous political pressure and may disappear.
Meanwhile, Bosnian Muslims want to offer Muslim Turks a dual
citizenship because they consider these centuries old occupiers of
Bosnia their liberators.
In Macedonia, likewise, the real masters of the situation are the
Muslims Albanians who have placed the Christian Slavs there into
virtual political ghettos.
Instead of showing themselves content with this, Balkan Muslims are
not only setting out towards Islamizing their territories, but also
towards actions aimed at America's destruction.
Tradition has it that the most extreme Islamists among Slavic Muslims
in the Balkans are from the Raska district, i.e. from Tutin, Novi
Pazar and Rozaj so one is to expect extremist Imams to come from this
region. Yet, the Islamic extremism and open attacks on the US that is
spreading among the Balkan Muslims is preached by an Imam, who is not
a native of Novi Pazar, nor of Sarajevo, but is an ethnic Albanian
from village of Orahovac in Kosovo. This Imam, Suleyman Bugari, is a
hodja of the White mosque in Vratnik, known as the most Muslim part of
Sarajevo.
Ironically, the fiercest fighter of jihad has not turned up from the
middle of Bosnia with its numerous Islamic top ranking religious
schools, but from Albanian dominated Kosovo, busy teaching the
Bosnians in the midst of Sarajevo what real Islam is.
Says Bugari: "The speech of the sword is more sincere than that of the
letter. Its blade lies between seriousness and jest. The whiteness of
the sword, not the blackness of the letters, for its back knows no
rust of doubt'.
Continues he: "The status of Muslims cannot be improved by papers.
This doesn't work. It is well known what can improve the status of
Muslims worldwide. How was it improved at first? By taking Islam to
all places. By convincing people that only God Allah exists."
Bugari concludes with a call to violence: "By purifying the heart of
all idols, and then, if necessary, by the jihad. And jihad was
necessary and will be necessary! Don't think that we can survive in
any other way, except by these three things: faith, economics and
responding to Allah when the time for jihad comes".
"[T]aking Islam to all places", including the US is the obligation of
every Muslim, preaches Bugari.
This Albanian Muslim Imam is also an avid anti-Semite. Says Bugari:
"Americans rule the world, and so do the Jews. With the Americans'
help, they have again outsmarted the entire world, especially the
economy. We consume American-Jewish products every day. We drink their
`Coca-Cola' and their `Pepsi', we use their banks, buy their weapons,
their `Nikes' and various other products. Imagine how many `cokes' a
billion and a half Muslims drink every day. According to some data,
700 million `Coca-Colas' every day, and you know well that 10 percent
of every `Coca-Cola' goes to Israel".
The Jew-hating Albanian Bugari attributes Islamic inability to
legitimize their land conquests in the Balkans on the damnation Allah
bestowed on Balkan Muslims because they relied on Americans. "We have
indeed asked them for help during the war, and we have started to
improve." says Bugari. "The Serbs are running away as they can, and we
say: Come, Americans, and lend us a hand. This is why Allah is now
punishing us."
Finally Bugari sides with Al-Qaeda by accusing America for holding 6
Algerian Bosnians in Guantanamo. "Now they will come and chase the
Algerian group to Cuba, then they will chase Imad El-Mis'ri, then they
will chase Fiusanin .."
Durguti was leading an organization known as "Vezir" or "Vazir." The
UN and US allege that Vezir is little more than a front for the
al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, based in Travnik, Bosnia, where
Durguti was last sighted. Vezir and al-Haramain were heavily supported
by Saudi charities and members proselytized the fundamentalist Wahhabi
strain of Islam.
Among those who were placed under surveillance by the authorities and
arrested in Bosnia because of their make-believe humanitarian work
that was a cover-up for the terrorist logistic base, an ethnic
Albanian was again identified. His name is Safet Durguti. Once more we
have someone coming from the town of Orahovac in Kosovo, where Bugari
is also from. This may suggest that Orahovac Albanians in Kosovo may
be the leading cadre of terrorist recruits, European by race,
recruited by al-Qaeda in order to be trained and easily bland in the
western societies to conduct terrorist killings.
Those who were to be allies of the US have thus shown their gratitude.
Even to the author of this text, who has always been pointing out the
dangers, all this seems odd. It would have been logical for the
Albanian Muslims to show more patience until the creation of Greater
Albania (thanks to the American tax payers' money) before revealing
their true face. But no, they seem unable to wait, for their ultimate
objective is not just Greater Albania, but through it, they wish to
destroy the US and Israel, and then all remaining non Islamic
political systems in the world.
These two cases of Albanian involvement in Islamic terrorism indicate
CIAs erroneous evaluation of the impact the Islamic presence has in
the Balkans. The way Islamic Imams of the Balkans reason and thus
teach their faithful flock is that Americans are worse then Serbs,
that Americans have been used to defeat Serbs and take away their land
but now, once used, time has come for America to pay the price for
being Christian. This is how Imam Bugari's thinks, and this is how his
captured compatriot in Pakistan, logistics militant Duguti also thinks.
American analysts who might be reading this will behave like the
entire administration, based on the presumption that Bugari is an
exception to the rule and that the remaining Albanian and Bosnian
Moslems are different. Indeed. Bugari was allegedly condemned by the
leadership of the Islamic community of the Raska (Sanjak) district but
the fact that they issued a simple verbal statement of condemnation
and left him to preach hate is more of a sign of Community's tacit
support for extremism then any exceptionality.
According to the Statute of the Sanjak Islamic Community, this
Community is an integral part of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and
Hercegovina so Suleyman Bugari is under the jurisdiction of the
Bosnian reis-ul-ulem Mustafa Ceric, who recently visited UK. According
to Bosnian reis-ul-ulem Mustafa Ceric Bugari "is distorting the Muslim
message and Islam" and is using his office for "poisoning with
untruths the young, who are rushing to hear him pronounce the above
mentioned phrases". This may indeed be empty rhetoric because the
Chief Imam left Bugari to preach his message of hate and by leaving
Bugari to preach, the highest Islamic authority in the Balkans is in
effect endorsing Bugari's terrorist preaching.
Musafa Ceric may not have been able to remove Bugari because the rest
of the imams in the council might also think the same, but are not
bold enough to shout it out loud as Bugari does. Even the reis-ul-ulem
of Bosnia who received the "UNESCO award for peace" has declared
himself an "Islamic fundamentalist", just as Bugari. It is also Ceric
who, with his authority, approves texts which appear in the official
papers of the Islamic Community where exactly the same things are
being written on jihad as the ones Bugari is saying. How can the US
condemn someone now, after having awarded a Muslim for similar speech
only a few months ago alleging his struggle for peace?
While the reis enjoys the prestige of a peacemaker, Bugari, on Ceric's
behalf, calls for jihad against those who are turning Ceric into a
peacemaker.
The case of the Pakistani arrest, Bugari and Durguti illustrate the
increasing Albanian involvement into the worldwide network of Islamic
jihad. In fact, the German Secret Services BND found that an Albanian
of Austrian citizenship, certain Samedin Dzezairi, is a an Al Quaeda
contact person for the Balkans.
The fact that the man arrested in Pakisan is a native of Albania and
not Kosovo is also an indicator of the degree of radicalization that a
previously atheist Muslims of Albania are undergoing. When, after
forty years of brutal communist and anti-religious policy, somebody
manages to get involved with the Al Quaeda on his way to struggle for
Islam, this shows more than anything else how strong Islam among
Albanians in the Balkans.
Then we wonder why are Christian churches razed in Kosovo?
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*Biography
Miroljub Jevtic is a professor at the College of Political Science at
the Belgrade University. He is an author numerous articles on the
theme of Islam and as an expert on Islam, professor Jevtic has had
numerous TV appearances and presentations in the print media across
the Balkans. He is an author of 9 books dealing with the influence of
Islam on the world politics. They are:
# Religion and Politics: Introduction to politics of religion (2002)
# Islam in the works of Ivo Andric (2000)
# All of Our Misconceptions 1989
# The Crime Awaits punishment 1998
# Muslims Between the Faith and a Nation 1996
# Islam and Geopolitical Logic 1995
# Albanians and ISlam 1995
# From the Islamic Declaration to the Religious War in Bosnia 1993
# Modern Jihad a sa War 1989
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